All Ages - Students - Teachers - Parents

Galleries are for the whole community, for
everybody and free!

Year 7 - Year 13 all students (not
just Art students) GO AND SEE SOME CONTEMPORARY ART IN THE HOLIDAYS.

"You can give students a high-quality
reproduction of a painting but it's not the same," he says. "It’s the
difference between watching a televangelist and going to church. It’s why
museums and churches invest in architecture. The act of going gets people into
a mindset to receive the experience." from the article: “Science says Art will
make your kids better thinkers (and nicer people)” Ms Thomson agrees!

It doesn’t have to take
long and will be a great friends or family experience, no pressure, just go in
and look around and that’s it.

Some things you’ll think
are rubbish, some you’ll love but more important than that, you’ve been gifted
some visual stimulation by contemporary artists, an experience, out of the cold,
for FREE.

(sometimes big galleries
charge for part of the gallery but not often)

What to
do there: Look
at it all. Relax. You won’t have to talk about what you see if you don’t want
to. Just look at it all and then leave. Simple!!

Hint for parents: Don’t put pressure on your kids by saying to
them “What does this mean?” “Whats this about?” Just allow them to look at it
all quietly and chat about the things that were memorable later. “What was your
favourite thing you saw today?” Some galleries have apps/activities for the
children but quietly looking at the work is just as good.